NYC Prep
Bravo | Release Date: June 23, 2009
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Underneath it, we also see kids. Yes, rich kids, but also insecure kids coping with the universal dramas of teenagers. That may be the most engaging part of NYC Prep. Read full review
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NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: Yes, cliches about wealth and privilege abound and are confirmed, or perhaps further embedded....But NYC Prep is so eager to establish a kinship with "Gossip Girl" that it's forgotten to tell much of a story. Read full review
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SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: NYC Prep is the reality version of "Gossip Girl" for those who take "Gossip Girl" a little too seriously--and don't mind that real prep school kids are far less witty and fascinating than the scripted ones. Read full review
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The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Viewers are treated to the spectacle of teenagers who can freely roam New York unsupervised by parents or teachers, tethered, by their own volition, to the strict rules and unyielding cliches of a Bravo reality show. Read full review
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Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: If only these little dears were fascinating, or at least more interesting than they are on the first installment. From the looks of the previews at the end of the hour, things will be heating up in future episodes, and the first might be viewed as a scene-setting preface to battles, tattles and conspiracies to come. Read full review
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SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: It is both an active agent of moral depravation and a total hoot. Read full review
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Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Thanks to a collection of well-off New York adolescents whose parents really should have known better, the NBC Universal-owned cable network's out to convince us that those kids from "Gossip Girl" are real. As if anyone would want them to be. Read full review
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VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: The main problem with NYC Prep is that the show never gets better than its title--lacking the sociological insight to score as a documentary or the hyper-real situations and "characters" that would make it sizzle as a soap. Read full review
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